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Значения термина jokey на английском

Playful and characterized by jokes.

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Examples for "joking"
Examples for "joking"
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And worrying. She is joking, but her words are also deadly serious.
Reuters
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There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal.
Dubliners
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The children couldn't quite make out whether he was joking or not.
Five on a treasure island
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Stormgren had often found it difficult to tell when Karellen was joking.
Childhood's End
5
Doctor Percival squeezed his arm and said, 'I was only joking, Davis.
The Human Factor
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The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.
Crown of Slaves
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I saw through his jocular exterior in several ways after his diagnosis.
The Guardian
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Ms Boaden argued: Most of their comments were jocular or light-hearted banter.
The Guardian
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Harry is known primarily for inheriting the jocular racism of his grandfather.
The Guardian
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The old genius was as jocular as the young one was pleasant.
Reviews
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Fortunately, the Crows were in a jocose, rather than a sanguinary mood.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mou...
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And also it offers people a chance to be jocose with facility.
The Price of Love
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He even, as time passed, became in a sardonic fashion almost jocose.
The Top of the World
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Indeed, one newspaper diarist wrote a jocose, rather knowing remark about it.
The Irish Times
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Surveying himself complacently in the glass, it pleased Mr. Toomey to be jocose.
The Fighting Shepherdess
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Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
Moby Dick
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You're the kind of a lively, joky fellow I like.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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Or that Uber has collated data from its customers' habits to calculate a joky tabulation of their one-night stands.
The Irish Times
4
You have not heard me say a word about her dear loving mother and her big joky father, have you?
The Girl Scouts at Home; or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day
5
Osama bin Laden was a vaguely joky figure whom certain alarmists in the US intelligence community were taking seriously, but for no particular reason.
The Irish Times
Использование термина jokey на английском
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I know that manufacturers often make claims about their products' jokey personifications.
The Irish Times
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The jaunty music appears to be pointing us in a jokey direction.
The Irish Times
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They had a tradition of writing each other jokey verse to celebrate.
The Irish Times
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Mike's face changed from being open and jokey to hardened and guarded.
Perfect
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Another faux pas: using the captions as a place to add jokey commentary.
Wired
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You're the sign most likely to wish you could retract a jokey hint!
The South African
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There's a jokey, boy's own quality to much of the commentary.
Radio NZ
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He had been approached to write books before, but always jokey high-concept books.
The Guardian
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Far from being sinister, his mask is a jokey icon of festive citizenship.
The Guardian
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There were only a few jokey fights with the assembled pack.
The Irish Times
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They had concluded that this was only one of his jokey gempman's ways.
V. V.'s Eyes
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Essentially this is Top Gear for food: a jokey, blokey exercise in excessive indulgence.
The Guardian
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I presented it as jokey evidence that I was wired that way all along.
The Guardian
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The Daily Telegraph admitted as much in its jokey story.
The Irish Times
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Photo: Lewis Eady Charitable Trust Schumann was in a jokey mood for these Novellettes.
Radio NZ
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The witch's demise features a jokey, back-from-the grave Carrie moment.
The Guardian
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